THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1015

that the fact of an application for a marriage license
may be revealed to the parent or guardian of either of
the contracting parties prior to the time of the actual
issue of a marriage license.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5 of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Marriages, " be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

5. Before the Clerk of any of the Courts aforesaid
shall issue any license he shall examine one of the con-
tracting parties to the marriage, under oath, who shall
appear personally before the Clerk and make application
for the same, and the Clerk shall ascertain; first, the full
name of the parties; second, their place of residence; third,
their age; fourth, their color; fifth, whether married or
single; sixth, whether related or not, if so, in which de-
gree of relationship; seventh, if ever divorced; which facts
upon the payment of One Dollar ($1. 00) as an applica-
tion fee shall be set out in printed form to be signed by
the person making the application, and no such license
to marry shall be delivered by the Clerk until after the
expiration of forty-eight (48) hours from the time appli-
cation is made therefor; provided, however, that any
Judge of the Circuit Court of the county in which the ap-
plication is made or, if made in Baltimore City, any judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, for good and sufficient
cause shown, may, by an order in writing signed by him,
authorize the Clerk to deliver such license at any time
after the application therefor, but such order shall not be
signed unless one or both of the contracting parties are
bona fide residents of Maryland, except where one of the
contracting parties is a member of the armed forces of
the United States. It shall be unlawful for the clerks of
any of the courts aforesaid to make public the fact of an
application for a marriage license until such license shall
have been issued [. ] except to the parent or guardian of
either of the contracting parties.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.